If you administer a website (or indeed a number of websites) you may need a tool which will allow you to simply backup a MySQL database on a regular basis.

Although there are a number of tools available online, none quite fit our needs. As a result, we've quickly written a simple MySQL backup tool in PHP.

Features

• Tested compatible with PHP version 5.2.14 and MySQL 5.0
• Allows for SQL and ZIP export of a single MySQL database
• Lists previous backups made

This is version 0.1a - it is no doubt buggy. We would appreciate any feedback if you do decide to use the tool.

The application is fairly self explanatory in its usage.

Installation

• Extract the Zip file
• Copy the contents to a directory on your server
• Browse to the directory you saved the files to with your browser

Features to be added in v0.2a (Release date 4th February 2011)

• Improved documentation
• Backup multiple databases
• Additional security (password for created ZIP files, and password for the utility)

You can download v0.1a here: PHP_Online_Backup_v0.1a

Warning! The utility lists previous backups and there is no password feature as yet. Please ensure that you either remove the tool after use as the backed up databases are available for any user to download.